Chris Riddell Quotes
No politician would ever comment on a cartoon unless it was to show what a great sense of humour they have, that they can laugh at themselves.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
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Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
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Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.
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Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes.
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I jog in the morning and then write for about two hours. There are times when I'm really excited and can't wait to get back to it. But there are days when I don't know what's coming next, and I really have to force it.
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You can imagine sitting in a room for three days talking about comic books, eight hours a day. It gets wacky and very nerdy. It also gets contentious at times.
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I tend to like to make my statements more in fashion than in beauty, because what I normally respond to is when someone looks really effortless and deconstructed, beauty-wise, and they're fashion is really grand. Someone like Kate Moss is a great example.
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No politician would ever comment on a cartoon unless it was to show what a great sense of humour they have, that they can laugh at themselves.
